This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Self employment is a never-ending contest between the world’s worst manager and the world’s laziest employee Daniel Akst Phenomenal teamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi will officially open its elegantly styled doors to the public in [ … ]
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote This present moment was once the unimaginable future Stewart Brand Today’s the day Happening today (Thursday): Xposure, the region’s biggest and best festival of photography, running till next Wednesday in its hew Aljada home … a [ … ]
Dubai Culture is introducing an International Art Fairs Grant to provide financial support for Dubai-based galleries looking to exhibit at art fairs abroad. The grant will cover up to half the cost of a booth. Saeed Mubarak bin Kharbash, CEO [ … ]
The Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial kicked off its second phase this week with nine new works for locations across the emirate. There were unveilings by Anga Art Collective, Arquitectura Expandida, Ayesha Hadhir, Lúcia Koch, Nnenna Okore, Sophia Balagamwala, Tarik [ … ]
Tamaas means ‘contact’ in Arabic (and Farsi too, as it happens). That’s a neat summary of what we should expect from an arts centre – contact as communication and connection, but also contact as collision. Maybe we’ll get all three [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation announced Aziz Hazara, Pallavi Paul and Pratchaya Phinthong as winners of the Sharjah Biennial Prize during the opening gala dinner of the Biennial’s 16th edition last week (no, we weren’t invited, since you asked). The winners were selected by architect/curator Paula Nascimento, co-curator [ … ]
The Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates has outlined its plans for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale. Curated by Azza Aboualam, architect and Assistant Professor at Zayed University’s College of Arts and Creative Enterprises, it has the [ … ]
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote If you want new ideas, read old books Shane Parrish Last-minute music The Tamaas Festival is the latest offer from NYUAD’s Arts Center in its perennial quest to bring clever, imaginative, exciting new music to Abu [ … ]
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Labels are for jam jars Richard Flanagan Today’s the day Happening today (thursday): the first day – of three – for the Sharjah Biennial opening programme. Pritzker prizewinner Riken Yamamoto talks about the transformative power of [ … ]
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